Teaching students to take on the world: Oxford schools go global with district-wide program

12:05 AM,
Feb. 5, 2014

(L to R) Jie Ran Xu, 9 from GuangZhou, China looks over a Time for Kids magazine in Rachel Hart's fourth grade class as Noah Martin and Carly Boyd, both 10 of Oxford Township read along on a story about the Russian Olympics.

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Evan Kussner leaned toward Yumin (Max) Tian as the two munched on pizza slices one day last week at Oxford Elementary School. He had a pressing question for the young visitor from China.

"How do you say 'a million' in Chinese?" he asked Yumin, one of eight Chinese students who spent nearly a week attending intensive classes at the school.

Yumin, whose English is limited, didn't understand the question. So Evan, a fourth-grader, tried a slightly different tack. Slowing down his diction, he asked, "How ... do ... you ... say ... 1,000 ... in ... Chinese?" ...